• Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Fourteen forty? You ballin! My 4800 baud ain’t got shit on you!

    (I can still hear the different connection handshakes)

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      9 days ago

      When you had some hella good shareware to download, it was always such a letdown to hear the scratchy line downshift to a lower speed trying to find a stable connection.

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      9 days ago

      I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 here. Aluminum case and all. It’s a work of art.

      A useless work of art. But still…

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        9 days ago

        I had to get rid of my US Robotics (freshly rebranded from… I can’t remember?) 56k when I moved last time. Part of my soul was left with that modem.

        This modem: